San Francisco bartender gets visit from Google 'secret police' for possessing prototype smartphone
A bartender in San Francisco found himself the target of the Google Gestapo after one of the search giant’s employees left a prototype smartphone at his bar. Jamin Barton, who is affectionately known as “Sudsy” by patrons of the 500 Club in San Francisco’s mission district,told Wired that he was closing up after a slow evening last month when he found a yet-to-be released Nexus 4 Android phone. “We find about 20 [phones] a week,” he said to the magazine. “Most people come back for them in 15 minutes. ” The phone was locked and without a SIM card, making Barton unable to locate the owner. He showed the device to a regular customer from the tech industry that immediately identified the phone as being the upcoming Nexus 4. The customer reached out to Google HQ for Sudsy.
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| -0.278078 | “Dave sort of freaked out. [He said] ‘Google lost a phone. You just got a guy fired…The Google police are coming,’” Barton recalled ... |
| -0.0405206 | “Dave sort of freaked out. [He said] ‘Google lost a phone. You just got a guy fired…The Google police are coming,’” Barton recalled to the tech magazine. “I probably shouldn’t have shown it to him. But I did. He didn’t work for Google, but Google had him pretty worked up. They told him he could be an accessory or something.” |
| 0 | “What was I supposed to do, look for the guy with Google shirt? How did I know this guy didn’t work for Apple,” Barton told ... |
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